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The Arctic Joule is now moored down at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. We encourage anyone who’s interested to come down and check her out. Kevin, Paul, Denis and Frank are down daily training in English Bay. This is tweaking time for the team as they row The Arctic Joule and determine what’s working well with the boat and what needs adjusting. On Wednesday May 29th The Arctic Joule heads back to her builder Robin Thacker in Nanaimo for the final adjustments. She’s a beaut!! On Thursday evening the team were happily moving along at nearly 4 knots in their training. Not bad for early days. She’ll get a whole lot heavier when fully loaded but the team will get a whole lot stronger too.

Energy Climate Petition

Energy Climate Petition

Energy Climate petition

The world is not on track to meet the target agreed by governments to limit the long-term rise in the average global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (°C).Global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing rapidly and, in May 2013, carbon-dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in several hundred millennia.

According to the latest IEA report issued in May 2013, the energy sector is key to limiting climate change and through four energy policies can keep the 2°C target alive (‘4-for-2 Scenario’). Through this petition we urge policy-makers around the globe to;